After spending a couple of days engaging with #DisruptTexts and its most vociferous Twitter defenders, here is what I've learned: 1. Many of its most outspoken defenders are also outspoken racists. Almost every one that I spoke to focused on my skin color and whatever stereotypes they could fabricate from it in their responses.

There seems to be an assumption by many on both sides of the #DisruptTexts debate that there is a conflict between classic texts and diverse texts. I have to admit that I find this assumption incomprehensible. Any meaningful list of canonical texts would inevitably be diverse. A list of world great books would surely include the Bhagavad Gita, Confucius's Analects, Monkey, the Qur'an, the 1001 Nights, poetry by Basho, Tao Te Ching, the Vedas and Upanishads, writings of Dogen, the Dhammapada, various sutras, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and many others